Aneurin Bevan Quotes
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: People, Road)
"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Time, Genius, Fish)
"This is my truth, tell me yours."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Truth)
"The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Man, Will)
"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Power, Purpose)
"The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Genius)
"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Forget, Man)
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Business, Duty, Reading)
"Poor fellow, he suffers from files."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Poor)
"I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Leader, Machine, Party, Right)
"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Society, Fascism, Future, Order)
"Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Freedom)
"Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Future, Man, Walking)
"I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Politics, Interest, Morals)
"No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Heart, Deep, Hatred, Party, Seduction)
"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Fiction, Newspapers)
"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Sympathy, Altruism)
"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Experience, Will)
"It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Peace, World)
"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Heart, Deep, Hatred, Party, Seduction)
"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Sound)